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Exploring Florence: A Quiz on the City and Its Culture

Test your knowledge about Florence, its culture, history, and significant landmarks with this engaging quiz.

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1 What is the native name for Florence?

2 The ________ region is just south of the city, and its Sangiovese grapes figure prominently not only in its Chianti Classico wines but also in many of the more recently developed Supertuscan blends.

3 What province does Florence belong to?

4 [44] It contains numerous upscale fashion and jewelry labels, such as ________, Roberto Cavalli, Salvatore Ferragamo and Bulgari, to name a few.

5 Gucci, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, and ________ have large offices and stores in Florence or its outskirts.

6 The Villa Palmieri is a patrician ________ in the picturesque town of Fiesole that overlooks Florence.

7 [47] The current ________ of Florence is 7.66 births per 1,000 inhabitants compared to the Italian average of 9.45 births.

8 Due to the high level of ________ and traffic in the city, an urban tram network called the TramVia is currently under construction in the City.

9 The event originates from the ________, when the most important Florentine nobles amused themselves playing while wearing magnificent costumes.

10 The Forte di Belvedere or Fortezza di Santa Maria in San Giorgio del Belvedere (often called simply Belvedere) is a fortification in Florence, ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Villa Medici del Trebbio was one of the first of the Medici villas outside Florence.
  • the identity of the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (pictured) was ascertained based on notes written in 1503 by Florentine clerk Agostino Vespucci.
  • the little borgo of Settignano, near Florence, Italy, was the birthplace of four sculptors of the Florentine Renaissance— Desiderio da Settignano, Bernardo Rossellino, Antonio Rossellino and Bartolomeo Ammanati.
  • when Tuscany issued its first postage stamps (example pictured) in 1851, Donatello's heraldic Marzocco of Florence was featured.
  • the Tornabuoni Chapel in Florence contains one of the largest fresco-cycles (pictured) in the city, with many details showing the life of Domenico Ghirlandaio's day.
  • the cappuccio (pictured), a type of headgear worn by men and women in 15th century Florence, was typically made by tailors instead of hatmakers.
  • Florentine law required the commissioning of unflattering frescoes, pittura infamante (representation pictured), on the exterior of the Bargello, of those found in contempt of court for financial offenses.
  • George Clavering-Cowper (pictured) went on a Grand Tour and, despite becoming an earl and an M.P., he stayed in Florence and became a prince.
  • in his Nuova Cronica (illustration pictured), the 14th century Florentine banker Giovanni Villani described the destruction of the original Ponte Vecchio bridge during the flood of November 4, 1333.
  • many well-known works of Renaissance art passed through the hands of connoisseur art dealer Stefano Bardini of Florence.
  • antiquarian Antonio Francesco Gori is alleged to have stolen Galileo's finger when the scientist's remains were transferred in 1737 to Santa Croce, Florence.
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